Ruminations: "None of This Will Happen"

"We will not withdraw the Israel Defense Forces from the Gaza Strip and we will not release thousands of terrorists. None of this will happen."
"I hear talk about all kinds of deals. I would like to make it clear: We will not conclude this war without achieving all of its goals. This means eliminating Hamas, returning all of our hostages and ensuring that Gaza never again constitutes a threat to Israel."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Bnei David military academy in the West Bank settlement of Eli, January 30, 2023. (Screenshot/Prime Minister's Office)

This was part of an address the Israeli prime minister made to students and staff on a visit to the West Bank-located Bnei David pre-military academy. The Bnei David was established in 1988, the oldest and largest religious Zionist pre-army institution in Israel, out of which 40 percent of its students reached officer status in the Israel Defence Forces. Fourteen of its graduates have been killed since October7, while fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

That same day Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's leader stated his organization was studying the latest terms for an agreement. Their priority was stated as the "full withdrawal" of Israeli forces from Gaza. Any agreement they would sign,they insist, must lead to a long-term ceasefire. Typically taqiyya/hudna, to give the terrorists an opportunity of time to regroup, rearm, refinalize offensive strategies and stage further devastating attacks on Israel in accord with their pledge to destroy the Jewish state.

The Hamas leadership -- in ongoing discussions with Qatar and Egypt acting as intermediaries trying to find a 'solution' to the current situation in Gaza interacting with Israel and the United States -- left the impression that negotiators had made progress toward an agreement reflecting a phased release of the remaining 136 Israeli hostages over a period of several months and the entry of greater amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

The lopsided exchange deals agreed to between the Hamas leaders and Israel of the past give more than a hint of the Hamas position for an agreement -- basically revolving around the release of the hostages. Their demand would be for the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including high-profile terrorists in exchange for the remaining hostages. None of this is geared to solve the greater dilemma that Israel would face by agreeing to withdraw from Gaza.

Gunmen march with mourners carrying the bodies of Palestinian terror operatives who were killed when undercover Israeli agents raided a hospital in Jenin, during their funeral in the northern West Bank city on January 30, 2024. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

Ongoing attacks by Palestinian terror groups are guaranteed. The UNRWA schools that have overlooked school curricula that imbue Palestinian children with hatred for Israel and Jews, along with the West Bank's Palestinian Authority with its pay-for-slay and relentless indoctrination of Palestinian children and youth in the death cult of martyrdom has ensured that the population will always support attacks against Israel.

On Monday night an undercover operation took place at the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin in the West Bank. Where a terror cell was planning yet another imminent terror attack inspired by the October 7 massacre. In a time-frame of ten minutes, IDF forces entered the hospital disguised as doctors, nurses and Palestinian women. Their goal was a safe room on the third floor of the hospital.

A dozen undercover forces were caught by security camera video footage from the hospital, most armed, wearing Muslim head scarves, hospital scrubs of white physician coats. They confronted three men; Muhammad Jalamneh, 27 who procured weapons for a shooting attack; brothers Muhammad and Basel Ghazawi with previous records of shooting attacks on Israeli troops and membership with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

They were neutralized. Mission accomplished. the Israeli special forces group left. In the process uncovering and resolving "another example of the cynical use by terror groups of civilian spaces and hospitals as cover and as human shields".